CMN 317 Study Guide - Final Guide: Personal Information Protection And Electronic Documents Act, Michel Foucault, Enclosure

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Communication
• Course: CMN 317
• Professor: John Shiga

Document Summary

Post-industrialism: central idea is that icts alter the economic base of society which also changes all other aspects of society, agrarian --------> industrial ---------> post-industrial. Technological determinism: the assumption that technological innovation is the only force driving history, when in fact technologies are products of particular social groups and are thus shaped by the interests of those groups. The modes of communication are changing rapidly, but that change is not unprecedented. The information age of the 15th century: the printing press contributed to major social transformations such as: 5 ways of defining the information society: technological: The diffusion of new information technologies in a society is leading to great social change: economic: Key element of info. society is the info. economy where majority of economic activity is processing info instead of industrial or agricultural: occupational: Arago"s rule: the most important consequences of a technology are the new things which the technology creates, not the old things which it replaces.